Bathing suit



M. GREEN BATHING SUIT Dec. 4 1923.

Filed June 21. 1922 &

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Patented Dec. 4, 1923.

um'reo srA 'r'ss In GREEN, PORTLAND, OREGON.

BATIHING SUIT.

Application filed time 21, 1922. Serial no. scam.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Max GREEN, 9. citlzen of the Republic. of Poland, and a resident of Portland, county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bathing Suits, of-

which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for holding the skirts of a one piece bathing-suit in place concealing the trunks.

A further object is to incorporate a support ina bathing suit which is efijective but is comfortable and allows freedom of movement.

A further and incidental'object is so to construct a one piece bathing suit so as to eliminate all ossible objections to the suit from the stan point of modesty. Speed swimmers and-divers have long objected to shirts on their bathing suits as they have noticed that the loose skirts imdid . knitted material the ribs are ill (ill) ede their movements and detract from their skill. The skirts of a necessity have to be made full and water and continued use soon destroy their inherent elasticity. This causes the skirt 'to float out from the body when in the water and hampers the movements of the wearer.

The result is unsightl also when the bather leaves the water because the shirt usually has crept up about the hips and discloses the trunks underneath. This has caused the bathing supervisors to frown upon this type of suit on the grounds of modesty, and in some cases they have ruled this type of suit from the beaches.

The connecting strap is made a substantial width and of an elastic material so that it can fit snugly to the body and still not irritate or bind. If this strap is made of placed trans verse of the strap so as to utilize the clasticity of this ty e of fabric.

These and other objects are illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view of a bathing suit shown in outline and shows my invention partly in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the supporting strap in position and shows that the strap is made with the ribs running transversely;

tached skirt 6,

Fig. 3 is a developed longitudinal section and shows how the supporting strap hugs the body and thus prevents the skirt of the suit from moving from its normal position;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a part of a bathing suit and has parts broken away to show the buttoned supporting strapoin position; and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary erspective view of a modified type of support inasmuch as the ends are widened so as to provide a wider connection to the suit.

My invention relates particularly to a one-piece bathing suit a which has an atbut is equally adapted to The bottom of the suit is made into leg portions 0 which are normally covered substantially by the skirt b. The skirt 6 is. fastened to the middle of the suit a by the seam cl. lit is loose on its lower edge 7) and is only held in place by the inherent elasticity of the fabric of which it is made. W hen this fabric loses this elasticity by continued use or otherwise the skirt does not have any restraining portion to hold it in osition.

l have astened the stra and back portions of the s irt 6 and have positioned the strap between the leg portions 0. The crotch between the leg portions, limits the upward movement of this strap and thus the skirts are held from climbing up. It has been found that this strap also prevents shrinking or the suit slightly.

As can be seen in Fig. 3, the strap also pulls the shirt closer to the body and this will minimize the frictional drag of the suit in the water. As has been heretofore stated, it will also eliminate any hampering of a swimmers stroke because of the entangling of the skirt with the arms.

The supporting strap may have buttons 7" placed thereon and thus can be detached.

The supporting strap should be fastened by a substantial broad surface so as not to distort the lines of the suit.v This feature is accentuated in Fig. 5 in which the ends 9 of the strap e are slightly wider than the middle so as to present slightly more width for attaching to the suit.

I claim:

A bathing suit, comprising a trunk hose two-piece suits.

e to the front,

a skirt everlying the hose and terminating tially in Contact with the crotch portion at its lower edge a short distance below the thereof, whereby tn maintain a substantially crotch portibn of the hose and a strap seconstant relation between the lower edge of 10 cured at its respective ends tn the skirt 1102- the skirt and the trunk hose and prevent 5 time immediately adjacent the free ed e at such lewer Skirt g o idi g up ever the latter, said strap extending between the the trunk hese, leg portions of the trunk hese emd'substan- MAX GREEN. 

